This card was created from a series of circles. The base card is an circular easel card, and all the elements are circles.

Even the digi-stamp was cut out using the circle scissors before the top half was cut out close to the digi. The wording here says "I heard that you lost your voice and now you're croaking like me".

The different circles were stuck on at slightly different heights to give the card front some dimension.

And that is it from me for today.
You should find Marleen here next Monday with the next "Pick of the Week" project, Fran
the Monday after that, and Tania the Monday after that - I hope that you'll also visit here again in four
weeks time when I should be back with a new "Pick of the Week" card to show you
- I'm going to get my thinking cap on to see what I can come up with.
In the meantime you'll find lots of other posts popping up on this blog practically daily, so please do come back to have a look soon.

If you fancy trying out some of Stamping Dragon Designs, please do visit the Store to find all sorts of digital goodies (you'll find great digi-stamps and lots more).
And why not join the "Stamping Dragon Designs" Facebook group.
It's a small, fun, group where we have lots of different activities which include exclusive challenges, inspiration and giveaways - and there's a loyalty club for those who take part as well.

a fun image.The image could be used for a male or female card for any occasion.
The balloon image is a set of 4 but you could use as many as you needed to say anything.
I decided to go for the new year.

I coloured the balloons with Graph it pens, cut them out and 3d foamed them on to the black card then applied Pinflaire glaze when this dried it helped to give dimension to the balloons. I used glitter peel offs for the letters. I stuck on the star gem and added sakura pen to add tails. The whole topper was then added to a DL card.
I think it looks so effective.

Make sure you pop on over to the Shop and have a browse , there is a great selection of Images available for you to choose from.

We also have a Stamping Dragon Facebook Group , where we have lots of fun , inspiration for you , mini challenges and lots , lots more, so why not come over and see us.

Monday, 16 December 2013

Hi everyone , it's my turn for the " Pick of the Week" this week , and again
this week we are going for the Christmas theme , as it's not long really
till the big day !! So this is some last minute inspiration for you.

Saturday, 14 December 2013

My name is Vera, I have been crafting since around 1996
The first craft supply I ever bought was from the old "Ben Franklin store",
I wish we still had ours.
The first things I ever crafted were Christmas ornamentsback then with my husband,That same year made Christmas ornaments from Upcycled C7 bulbs I didn't do much crafting after that because, of work and our son came along in 1998.

I started up again around 1999 when I joined Stamping' Up!
It was such a waste of time because, soon after that pretty much the economy went to crap
None of my family, friends acquaintances could afford to buy anything,
plus we just didn't have the space to make room for me to craft. I stayed with it maybe two years but my second child arrived in 2001
and I said enough is enough... . 90% of the sales were to myself.

Once she started getting around good, I stopped crafting again and boxed it all up because, she was getting into everything.. Finally when she hit 7 years old and both kids were less destructive and exploring less, I pulled it out and started working in front of them, she was so excited and it made my heart melt when she wanted to join in too.
She has been crafting with me since 2008.

I still have a whole heck of a lot to learn, when it comes to layouts, and coloring with alcohol markers.
Took me years before I could afford to buy my first complete set of alcohol markers
and another year before I bought the paper..
70-80% of my craft supplies are either from resale shops, yard-sales, free cycle yahoo groups and Cafe yahoo groups. I am not ashamed that most of my stuff is used My aunt is like your not supposed to tell people that you got that from a yard sale or used store. To her I replied, "I am proud to be thrifty and that I save money whenever and wherever I can". And it allows me to buy stuff I normally could not have bought..

Well, enough blabbing onto sharing my card.
I made this card using 2 cute digi stamps from Stamping Dragon DesignsJanette combined the couple and the scene for me because,
I needed them for a wedding card... Romantic picnic

There were a lot of other
things I wanted to add, but due to 3 people being sick on and off since
the end of October in my family, I just don't have the time to make the card like my niece would have liked Never the less I love it

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Hi
I'm Sue and I'm married to my best friend, I have two children and two
beautiful grandsons, oh and 'his lordship' who is Ollie our cocker
spaniel.

I have basically retired from being a Civil Servant as I'm my
husbands full-time carer and my crafting is my 'stress' relief. I began
when I was little as most of us do, my grandma taught me how to bake and
embroider, my mam taught me how to knit and crochet and I loved art at
school and went on to do 'A' level Art.

When I was asked to be part of
the Stamping Dragon design team I was over the moon, everyone made me
feel really welcome and I love the digi stamps because I love to colour
and there is so much to choose from.

We have great fun as a team and we
all bring something individual to it. The card I have made has the
lovely Rupert on he's such a cute dragon and I've used
it as a 'New Home' card, why not pop into our store and have a look you
won't be disappointed!

Anyway enough waffling from me, hope everyone
has a fantastic Christmas and an even better New Year.

After printing out the image I coloured it in using my markers and then put some wet glue on the white hat edge and pompom. I then put white glitter flocking on this. I used a circle scissors to cut out the digi and a mat to put behind it.

I also used my circle scissors to cut a series of pink and red circles from some satin board, folded them in half and stuck them together using quick grab wet glue. I then went over the join laying down a band of red glitter glue.The base card was made by scoring two sheets of satin board at the half way point. One was cut along the score line and the other was scored again from front corner to corner. I used finger-lift tape to attach the half sheet inside the other card, and the one scored diagonally was cut in half along the score line to give a half front card, to which lace was attached along the cut line using ultra tacky tape and the digi-stamp on its circular mat.

The card was further decorated with die cut holly leaves and silver peel-offs from my crafting stash.

So there you have it - one "1st Christmas" card - I hope you like it.

If you've left it a bit late and still need to finish your Christmas cards, but don't have time to go colouring in this little digi-stamp for yourself, then one version of "Hippo Christmas Coloured" is available in the shop - here.

Not long till Christmas everybody. I hope that you've managed to get a lot of the little jobs you wanted to do ahead of time all done, and that the cards you are going to post are ready. I hope you all have a lovely Christmas.

And that is it from me for today.Marleen will be here next Monday with a "Pick of the Week" project to share with you all, Fran
the Monday after that, and Tania will be sharing with you in three weeks time - I hope that you'll visit here again in four
weeks time when I should be back with a new "Pick of the Week" card to show you - I'm hoping to produce a card for a child.
In the meantime you'll find lots of other posts popping up on this blog in between, so please do come back to have a look soon.

If you fancy trying out some of Stamping Dragon Designs, please do visit the Store to find all sorts of digital goodies (you'll find great digi-stamps and lots more).
And why not join the "Stamping Dragon Designs" Facebook group.
It's a small, fun, group where we have lots of different activities
which include exclusive challenges, inspiration and giveaways - and
there's a loyalty club for those who take part as well.

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Meet Penny, Rupert's partner in Love, a quiet shy Dragon she was a typical girl before they met, loving pretty things and meeting with her friends, then she met her True Love and they settled down happily together, but before that happened she was a working Dragon

Penny worked at the local hospital as a Nurse, a very popular one with her kind bedside manner and friendly personality, she stayed in this job until all the baby dragons came along.

Her favorite pastime is Crafting, she likes nothing better than to lock herself away to create cards, and scrapbook layouts and lots lots more goodies :D

Find out more about Penny this month, watch out for the Meet the Dragon Posts :D

Thursday, 28 November 2013

For the
one's that don't know we have a Facebook Group Just for Stamping Dragon
Fans, but it is much more than just an ad group, we have games,
challenges, fun, chat and even a loyalty club where you can earn points
to spend in store :D.

Each week the Design Team get a project
from store to play with, to give inspiration and this week they used
this Topper Pack which you can find in store.

Please have a
look at the teams samples below and maybe pop in and visit them, they
would love to see you, and you may even want to come and join us and
play along.

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Hi everyone I hope that you are all well and happy. Its time for this fortnights Crafting on a budget feature and as the title suggests I have created a flower using things that can be found around the home and I hope that you like it.

Pic 1

Shows a selection of things I used to create the flower. (also used some newspaper. not pictured )

Pic 2

I have cut out some petal shapes from the plastic cream tub and some newspaper . I also cut out a circle shape from the cream tub and attached the petal shapes to it using double sided red sticky tape to form the flower and added a button to the centre.

Pic 3

Shows the flower completed. I have used a piece of twine for the stem and cut out of newspaper two leaf shapes.

Pic 4

Shows a card I created using the flower I made, paper, card and embellishments from my stash.

The paper under the gingham is from the aged journal - Angels collection available in the store.

Of course there are many materials around the home that can be used to make the flower so why not have a look around and see what you can come up with!

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget we still have a challenge running over on the challenge blog and lots of fun stuff going on on a daily basis over in the Facebook group so come along and join in the fun.